A BERT-Based Attention Model with BiLSTM for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Agricultural Datasets
摘要
In this paper, we introduce a BERT-based attention model integrated with a bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM) for aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) in the agricultural domain. ABSA is a granular sentiment analysis approach that identifies sentiment polarities specific to aspects or features within a text, providing more detailed insights than traditional sentiment analysis. The proposed model leverages the pre-trained BERT model to generate contextual embeddings, which are then enhanced by a multi-head attention mechanism to capture the relations between aspect and their surrounding context. A BiLSTM layer is subsequently used to refine these representations, aiding in the sequential understanding of sentiment. We evaluated our model on our specific datasets, which are publicly available on GitHub: an Amazon review dataset related to pesticide products, where it achieved an accuracy of 96.43%, and a Twitter dataset focused on pest and crop disease discussions, achieving an accuracy of 92.74%. Additionally, we tested our model on popular ABSA benchmark datasets: SemEval2014-Task4, SemEval2015-Task12, and SemEval2016-Task5 restaurants datasets, where it achieved accuracies of 90.30%, 94.90%, and 95.81%, respectively. These results demonstrate our model’s effectiveness across both domain-specific and general datasets, emphasizing its adaptability in ABSA tasks.